Time to Read: about 75 to 90 minutesArmed with only three bullets, an old map, and a score to settle, Bonnie Murtaugh may be in the Splintered Man's territory, but she won't let anything come between her and vengeance.Lost Colony is a quarterly magazine of mid-length (10,000 to 25,000 words) science fiction and fantasy in all of their varieties. This ebook edition also includes an Editor's Note in which the editor explains why this story was chosen for publ...

A house at the edge of a prehistoric valley.A suitcase that can take you to 1980.A payphone that lets you call the dead.Twenty tales from award-winning author Grant Stone, including six all-new stories.From a trip to the supermarket to the edge of everything. From Auckland to London to places far beyond any map. The sun may set before we reach our destination. But don't worry.Everything is going to be fine.

Book Two in the "Everything Zing" series. Miss Spring takes Zing's throne. The Capital City's drama explodes.What proposal did Father Time make to George and Leap at the conclusion of the Calendar Court…and following his Leap Year gone wrong, what, or maybe who, is Phileap most fearful of facing on the first day of Spring?Discover the wonderful effects of swallowing a twitterflea…and the other secrets and special effects Miss Spring has lined up for her unforgettable openin...

What could George have possibly done – something so disastrous that Miss Spring refused to have the matter even mentioned in her storyline? How will Senor Summer respond to Sister Spring's plot manipulation, and how will he navigate the devastating twist of circumstances?Book Three – Everything Zing: Summer holds those answers and so much more!The June, July, and August rooms in the Hourglass Inn are all due to open. What will their interiors reveal, plus, who will be named...

The fourth and final segment of the "Everything Zing" series.The Imagine Nation's Greatest Battle...Two Brothers. One Rules. One Falls.

Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come. This volume includes:The Astonishing Amulet of Amenartas by Nathan LowellAgent Heathcliff Durham finds himself crisscrossing Africa, looking for an Amulet that could spell disaster for any who come near it. Battling blistering heat, starvation, wild animals...

The best short science fiction and fantasy published by authors from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2018, collected together for the first time.This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018.Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you mi...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

A systems-oriented look at how unhealed trauma can prevent optimal functioning—and what to do about itTrauma Impacts: Repercussions of Individual and Collective Trauma explores the many ways that traumatic experiences affect people from diverse backgrounds, as individuals and in groups. In chapters contributed by experts in their fields, this book offers a systemic overview of how trauma impacts all humans, then delves into the manifestations of trauma in ...

Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, Lawson became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce independent women, foreign fathers and larrikin mates. Lawson wrote from the heart, documenting what he saw from his earliest days as a poor, lonely, handicapped boy with warring parents on a worth...

Implementing Play Therapy with Groups is a new and innovative edited book bringing together experts from across the field of play therapy to explore how to facilitate group play therapy across challenging settings, diagnoses, and practice environments.Applying theoretical and empirical information to address treatment challenges, each chapter focuses on a specific treatment issue and explores ways the reader can implement group work within their play therapy work. Chapters...

This book explores the multitude of thoughts, theories, opinions, methods, and approaches to play therapy in order to highlight the unity and diversity of theory and perspective in the field.Each chapter is a common question related to play therapy to which ten established and experienced play therapists share their thoughts, theoretical perspectives, and opinions. The key characteristics of a well-trained play therapist, the role of technology in play therapy, the importance of sp...